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Edward "Page" Allinson met Christopher Morley at Haverford College, and they were close life-long friends. Allinson married Mary, also a close friend of Morley, and they lived much of their life together in West Chester, Pennsylvania. In this collection, he is sometimes referred to as "EPA."
Henry Tatnall Brown (1871-1938) was Vice-Chairman of the American Friends Service Committee and Chairman of the relief work in Spain. He was married to Mary Scattergood Brown, and had three sons. He and Christopher Morley were good friends for much of their lives. In this collection, he is sometimes referred to as "HTB."
Christopher Darlington Morley (1890-1957), was born in Haverford, Pennsylvania, the son of Frank Morley and Lilian Janet Bird Morley. In 1900, the family moved to Baltimore, Maryland, but Morley enrolled at Haverford College in 1906. There, he published in the school's Haverfordian, was on its editorial board, edited his class yearbook, helped write, produce, and act in plays, and was a member of the cricket and soccer teams. After graduating in 1910 as valedictorian of his class, he became a Rhodes Scholar at New College, Oxford University, where he studied modern history. Returning to the United States, Morley began a versatile career as poet, novelist, essayist, critic, and editor, supporter of theatrical ventures, book-club judge, and friend of neglected old writers and emerging new ones. In 1914, he married Helen Booth Fairchild; they had four children. They moved to Philadelphia in 1917, but moved permanently to Roslyn Heights, Long Island, in 1920. Morley's career began with an editorial position with Doubleday, Page and Co., publishers, on Long Island, New York. He also edited the Ladies' Home Journal, and cofounded and edited the Saturday Review of Literature. Morley wrote for many papers, including the Philadelphia Evening Public Ledger and the New York Evening Post. Though he thought of himself as a poet first, Morley was a prolific author of both novels and poetry, publishing his first book of poems in 1912 while he was at Oxford. In total, Morley published at least ten books of verse, and many celebrated novels including Kitty Foyle (1939), which made the bestseller list and was the basis of a 1942 movie starring Ginger Rogers and The Man Who Made Friends With Himself (1949). Morley wrote introductions and prefaces for works by other authors such as Walt Whitman, H.H. Munro, William Shakespeare, and Laurence Sterne, and edited material by Whitman, Sir Francis Bacon, his close friend the humorist Don Marquis and Bartlett. In addition to volumes of published essays, Morley gave countless lectures, some of which were published. Morley was involved in the Book-of-the-Month Club and cofounder of the Baker Street Irregulars, a club for lovers of Sherlock Holmes. In this collection, he is sometimes referred to as "CDM."
Felix Morley (1894–1982) was born in Haverford, Pennsylvania. Morley graduated from Haverford College in 1915, was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to study at the University of Oxford. He joined the American Red Cross as an ambulance driver during World War I. Morley married in 1917, and had four children. He worked at the Baltimore Sun and held editorship of the Washington Post, 1933-1940. Morley served as president of Haverford College, 1940-1945. Over the years, Morley produced a considerable body of writing: a half-dozen books, one novel, hundreds of political and literary essays and book reviews, editorials, and opinion pieces. His memoirs, For the Record, were published in 1979. In this collection, he is sometimes referred to as "FMM."
Frank Morley (1860-1937) was born in Woodbridge, Suffolk, England, to Quaker parents. Morley entered King's College, Cambridge in 1879, but only completed his undergraduate studies in 1884 due to illness. He then attended Bath College, 1884-1887. Morley then came to the United States to serve as professor of mathematics at Haverford College until 1900. In 1889, he married Lilian Janet Bird; they had three sons: Christopher, Felix, and Frank. In 1900, Morley was called to the Johns Hopkins University as professor and head of the mathematics department, a position that included editorship of the American Journal of Mathematics. The program was in disarray, and Morley was largely successful in remedying the situation. Morley served as professor and department head until his retirement in 1928, and continued to supervise doctoral students until 1931. Morley was a celebrated mathematician and professor. As well as presidency of the American Mathematical Society, 1919-1920, Morley made many contributions to the field of mathematics, including the book Inversive Geometry (1933), which was the product of a twenty-year collaboration with his son, Frank V. Morley.
Frank Vigor Morley (1899-1980) was the youngest son of Frank Morley and Lilian Janet Bird Morley. He graduated from Haverford College and studied at New College, Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. While Morley shared his father's natural interest in mathematics, his greatest passions were literature and publishing. In addition to writing, Morley founded and directed Faber and Faber Publishers, for which he moved to London. Morley subsequently adopted England as his own country. A Sherlock Holmes enthusiast like his brother Christopher, Morley was also a member of the Baker Street Irregulars. In this collection, he is sometimes referred to as "FVM."
Lilian Janet Bird Morley (c. 1866-1939) was born in Hayward's Heath, Sussex, England. She married Frank Morley in 1889, and had three sons: Christopher, Felix, and Frank. Morley had a lifelong appreciation for music and literature, and taught her eldest son to read before he entered school. Morley wrote a full manuscript of her memoirs, Bygones, but it was never published. In this collection, she is sometimes referred to as "LJBM."
(Source: Oakley, Helen McKelvey. Three Hours for Lunch: The Life and Times of Christopher Morley. New York: Watermill Publishers, 1976.)
(Source: American National Biography Online Feb. 2000. Access Date: Wed Feb 08 2012 12:43:47 GMT-0500 EST. Copyright © 2000 American Council of Learned Societies. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved.)
(Source: Dictionary of Quaker Biographies. Source: The Friend, vol. 96 (1938) p. 774)
This collection focuses on the personal and professional life of Christopher Darlington Morley. Morley was a professor's son, and he began writing for pleasure very early in life. This collection includes material from his academic career, at Haverford College and as a Rhodes scholar at Oxford University, which consists primarily of notebooks and essays. The bulk of the collection, however, focuses on Morley's professional creative writing, including newspaper columns, essays, novels, lectures, and poetry. Much of Morley's correspondence is also included, both professional and personal, and some writing and corresponcence from other Morley family members.
Contents of the collection include:
Christopher Darlington Morley: childhood and adolescence, early school.
CDM Haverford College: manuscripts, notebooks, memorabilia, Rhodes Scholarship testimonials.
CDM Oxford: notebooks, essays, photos.
CDM Young Manhood: manuscripts, typescripts, other writing, biographical material, newspaper clippings.
CDM: realia, memorabilia, poetry, material re exhibition on CDM, photographs.
CDM Additions and Letters to FMM: letters and postcards.
CDM Additions to Papers: letters, Morley Alcove material.
CDM Additions to Manuscripts: manuscripts (by/about CDM), writings, material about/connected to CDM.
CDM Additions to Pictures: miscellaneous images, notes on material given to Haverford College (by FMM, EPA).
FVM and LJBM: writing by FVM, letters (FVM), writing by LJBM.
FMM Journals.
CDM Correspondence.
CDM Manuscripts: manuscripts, typescripts, essays, poems.
CDM Drafts of The Man Who Made Friends With Himself: images of dust-jacket, draft sections of work.
CDM Photos, Clippings, Logbook, etc.: photographs, lecture notes, newspaper clippings, material re publicity of work, The Small Fry logbook.
CDM Miscellaneous Material: material re CDM/presented with collection, Haverfordiana, published work, newspapers.
CDM Printed Items: material printed at Haverford, other printed CDM material.
CDM Thorofare.
CDM Manuscripts.
CDM Correspondence and Letters.
CDM Printed Items.
CDM Miscellaneous: typescripts, newspaper clippings, images, letters (re Morley Alcove), correspondence.
CDM Manuscripts.
CDM Selected Works: manuscripts, typescripts.
CDM Additions to Material By and About CDM: writing by CDM, manuscripts, schoolwork, printed items, material from after CDM's death.
CDM Additions to Letters and Images: drawing, photos (CDM and Morley family), ephemera, correspondence, letters.
FVM Works: typescripts.
FVM Miscellaneous Writing: writing, puzzles/games, essays.
FVM Lectures and Biographical Information.
FVM Notebooks: notebooks, other material.
FVM and LJBM: writing by FVM, writing by LJBM.
CDM and FMM: typescripts (by CDM, FMM, other), photos.
FVM Scrapbook.
FVM Correspondence.
CDM, FVM, FMM Correspondence and Letters. Restricted.
FVM Material re Biography of CDM.
CDM Letters and Correspondence.
FMM Correspondence and Papers: diary, correspondence, essays, photos, postcards, published material.
This collection was acquired over a lengthy period of time. Because of this, material is arranged based on when it was added to the collection, and not all material of one kind is housed together.
This collection was donated over a lengthy period of time. Portions of collection donated by Blythe M. Brennan and J. Donald I. Morley.
Lilian Janet Bird, mother of Felix Morley, Christopher Morley, and Frank Morley, preserved much juvenilia of Christopher Morley, along with letters, and newspaper articles relevant to her children. She left it to her son Felix Morley, who then donated it to Haverford College.
Processed by Janela Harris; completed February, 2012.
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- February, 2012
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This collection is open for access.
Box 10, "CDM Additions and Letters to FMM," in which all letters to Harrison Hires are not to be used or quoted without librarian's permission.
Boxes 48-50, "Christopher, Frank, and Felix Morley Correspondence and Letters," which are restricted until January 1, 2026.
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Standard Federal Copyright Laws Apply (U.S. Title 17).
Collection Inventory
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Letters include:
From CDM to his mother. Woodbridge, Suffolk, 1898 4/13. Letter.
To CDM from grandparents, 1899 4/28, for his 9th birthday. Letter.
Miscellaneous material includes:
Program for amateur theatricals. "'The Mad Tea-Party', dramatized from 'Alice in Wonderland' by, and produced under the stage direction of C.D. Morley." Baltimore, 1905 2/24. Document.
The Jeffersonian, of the Jefferson School for Boys, Baltimore, Vol. I, nos. 1,2,3,4. 1905 12-1906 5. (CDM, business mgr.) Vol. II, nos. 1,2. 1906 12, 1907 1.
Scrapbook, 1907 1/3, containing miscellaneous material, mostly from 1904-1906 (a few items later).
35 small photos, unidentified.
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Manuscripts include:
Prayer.
"The Turtle and the Dove," (unfinished plot).
A story about a prince (unfinished).
"Cupid Waldbaum," (unfinished).
"The Fate of Nations," (complete), signed M.D.C., (Morley's initials backwards).
"Putts and the Woe I Sing -" (unfinished poem).
Themes on American Literature, 1906-1907, English Literature, 1907-1908.
Speech outline, 1910.
Documents.
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Memorabilia includes:
Views of Old Philadelphia
Haverford College Views
Souvenir booklet of Maude Adams in "Peter Pan", 1907 2/13, 2/19.
Transcript of marks for 4 years, signed by O.W. Chase, registrar, 1910 4/11.
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Testimonial letters concerning CDM, written to accompany his application for Rhodes Scholarship, 1909.
Writers include Oscar M. Chase, Wm. Wistar Comfort, Fabian Franklin (ed., N.Y. Eve. Post.), Francis B. Gummere, Rufus M. Jones, Frank Dempster Sherman, Allen C. Thomas, James Whitall, others.
(Carbons also included.)
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Contents include:
Lecture notes on Economics. "The 3 factors in Production..."
Lecture notes on R.S. Rait: The History of Scotland. 1912 1/24, 2/2.
Lecture notes on W. Buchanan Riddell: The Relations of England and Europe, 1815-1878. Hilary Term 1912 [1-3].
Lecture notes on A. Hassall: European History, 1848-1878. 1912 1/25-3/12.
Lecture notes on W.G.S. Adams: European Governments and Parties Since 1895. 1912 4/30-5/7.
Lecture notes on H.A.L. Fisher: European History. 1912 5/1-5/24.
Lecture notes on Grant Robertson: Lectures in Exeter College Hall on the Reign of Charles II. 1913 1-2.
Examination papers on Political Economy and Economic History, 1913 3/8.
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Notebook used from both ends. From back: Roman Law: The Institute of Gains.
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Notebook used from both ends. From back: W.G.S. Adams, M.A.: The Principles of Pol. Sci.
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Notebook used from both ends. From back: Political Science.
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Contains notes from English History: Prof. R.S. Rait, M.A., New College, Oxford.
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3 men including CDM, taken in London.
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Photo taken in Oxford. Unidentified man also in "Group of (3) Men," possibly English.
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Essay by CDM on Robert Louis Stevenson, read to the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Oxford, 1912 5/14. Typed Document.
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Poem, written at Oxford, 1913 3. Submitted (unsuccessfully) for Newdigate Prize. Document.
Manuscript note from CDM and typed copy laid in.
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Notebook containing:
Ideas for book of short pieces, to be called "Insomnia."
"The Poet's Pen."
Short story about Harold Underhill.
"To make it sell," (humorous poem, unfinished).
Laid in:
"October, a Boy's Song," (poem by CDM).
"On the Avenue," (poem by CDM).
"Woman's Heart, Man's Head" (poem by CDM).
"Omnia Vincit Amor," (story) signed Andrew McGill [CDM] Document. [1909]
"Is There a Cow?" essay. Document.
Short story about Ydepe Bunks. Document.
"Mr. Theodore Pink emerged from the tea shop..." (Manuscript fragment).
Clipping from N.Y. Evening Sun, 1915 11/12. "Taking Football Seriously, " by CDM.
Playbill of 1 Act play, "Getting Rid of Bill", by CDM. Performed 1919 1/17.
List of publications, editors, and pieces sent out to them.
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Contains manuscript preface and material for collection of passages CDM most enjoyed in his youth. [1917-1918?]
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Envelope and manuscript of translation from French, by CDM, of article, "Deported," by Mme. H. Celarie, from Revue des Deux Mondes. Paris, 1917 6/15. Document.
Contents include:
"Casual Ablutions"
Unfinished work
"Seventeenth Century Exercises," 6 sonnets. Document. [n.d.]
"Inward Ho!" Series of brief reflections. Document. [n.d.]
"To My Father and Mother"
"Kathleen." Typescript of short story, Document. (with envelope)
"Referred to the Author." Short story, Document. [c. 1920]
"Punch and Judy." Short story, Document. [c. 1920]
Contains rough drafts of publicity for Lyric and Rialto Theaters, Hoboken, plus bits of dialogue; other notes.
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Contents include:
8 sonnets. Documents. [Envelope dated 1922]
Manuscript of account of CDM's meeting with Woodrow Wilson. Document. (Incomplete) [early 1920s]
"Gloria and the Garden of Sweden." Document. [c. 1920]
"Advice to the Lovelorn." Document. [c. 1920]
Memoranda for a Sonnet Sequence. Document with manuscript additions. (Read at meeting of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, Harvard Chapter, 1923 6/22)
"Books and Byplay in New York." Essay, Document. [c. 1921?]
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Script of dramatic version of Kathleen, by CDM. Signed by co-author, Earl Derr Biggers. Documents. includes additional rewritings. [c. 1923?]
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Titled "Troja: roman par Fortunat Strowski" [CDM?] New York - Paris 1924. T.D.
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First envelope contains 3 articles (tear sheets) on CDM's experiment with the Rialto and Lyric Theaters in Hoboken:
"How New York Was Sent to Hoboken," by Montrose J. Moses, Review of Reviews, 1929 5.
"Broadway Crosses the Hudson," by James R. Crowell, Psychology, 1929 6.
"Hissing the Villains in Hoboken," The Literary Digest, 1929 4/6.
Second envelope contains royalty and box office statements from American Play Company Inc., N.Y., 1919 12/11.
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Contents include:
[Tim]es Book Review, 1916 1/9, mentioning CDM's "Hymn to the Dairymaids of Beacon Street"
The Eve. Sun, 1916 4/13, quoting interview with CDM and telling about the new Doubleday, Page and Co. bookshop, organized by him.
The Bellman, 1917 3/10, containing mentions of CDM and quoting his poem, "The Old Swimmer."
20 on The Haunted Bookshop.
2 on "In the Sweet Dry and Dry."
1 on "Mince Pie."
1 on "The Rocking Horse."
1 on CDM.
1 on CDM and Thomas Augustine Daly.
The Living Age, 1919 10/18, complete issue containing article, "America and the English Literary Tradition," by Vincent O'Sullivan, which mentions CDM.
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Includes 25 letters about and 21 reviews of book, Where the Blue Begins.
Correspondents include Bruce Bliven, John Haynes Holmes, Charles G. Norris, Angelo Patri, Jean Starr Untermeyer, and Louis Untermeyer.
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Contents include:
Letters, reviews, extracts from reviews, notes of suggested interpretations of quotations from famous authors [related in spirit to book?]. All to do with Thunder on the Left.
Correspondents include Edward Stanton Babcock, [Wm. Rose Benet?], Herschell Brickell, Louis Bromfield, Erskine Caldwell, Arthur Hamilton Gibbs, Alfred Harcourt, Malcolm Niebuhr, Charles G. Norris, Albert Bigelow Paine, W. Lyon Phelps, and Vincent Starrett.
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Material Specific DetailsOxford Poetry, 1921 ed. by Alan Porter, Richard Hughes, and Robert Graves.
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Material Specific DetailsThe Baker Street Journal, vol. 1, no. 2, .N.Y. Paste-up containing article by C.D.M., "Clinical Notes by a Resident Patient."
Subjects include:
CDM
CDM and EPA. 1913. (Gift of Mrs. Mary Allinson, 1968)
Morley family, Frank Sr., Lilian J., Christopher, Felix, and Frank. Prudence, R.I., 1913 8.
Rupert Brooke (2 photos)
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) sent as Christmas greeting by Alfred F. Goldsmith. [n.p., n.d.]
3 men, one of whom is CDM. The Hague, Netherlands. 1912 7/3.
Fontaine Fox, c. 1915, Moffett Chicago.
Unidentified man and woman [Lilian and Frank Morley?]
Unidentified men (2 photos)
Unidentified woman. [LJBM?]
5 Photos of New York City in early morning, by Horace C. Shimeld. Mounted.
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Portrait of Christopher Morley by Richard Hood. n.d., etching. Signed by CDM.
Stephen Leacock
Print of etching of Woolworth Building, by Earl Horter.
Print of scene of Medieval revelry, signed J. Nash, 1839.
Pen and ink drawing (print from) of dog outside kennel in moonlight [has been retouched for engraving. Illustration for something of CDM's?]
Reproduction of pen and ink drawing of early English book seller. Mounted.
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Contents include:
Note addressed to "C.M.", signed "J.A.F." [n.p., n.d.]
Card, "To Kit with love from Georgianna." [n.p., n.d.]
Christmas greeting - print of footman, carrying boar's head - card laid in, "To Mrs. Chris and Chris - from Charlotte and Hubert [Rutherford Brown]" [n.p., n.d.]
Card with picture of twin beds; message beginning, "A Suggestion -" [n.p., n.d.]
Letter to CDM from D. Nichols. Wapakoneta, Ohio. [n.y.] 9/14.
Postcard to CDM from FMM. Army Post Office, N.Y., 1915 10/12.
3 booklets of poetry by Albert J. Edmunds: "Fairmount Park and Other Poems," "Songs of Asia," and "A Duet with Omar," with inscriptions by author dated 1918. Also leaflet listing "Recent Articles by A.J. Edmunds."
Article, "Linkages," by Frank M. Morley, reprinted from The Scientific Monthly, 1919 10, with manuscript note from FVM on cover.
Letter to CDM from L'Art Ancien S.A., Librairie et Maison d'Antiquités. Lugano, 1924 10/14. Regrets they no longer have rare book he wished to buy. (In French) (See also: Poem, 1921 10/1, Haverford College. [About the "brotherhood of Scops"]. Letter, 1922 6/2, to Dean P. Lockwood, Haverford. N.Y.C. [Regrets cannot attend Scops meeting; sends poem, "Parson's Pleasure and Other Matters," about Haverford and Oxford]).
Valentine's note to Esther Lockwood. 1925. [gives permission to the Women's Faculty Club (of Haverford College) to use any of his plays without royalty].
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Contents include:
Clearance papers of whaling ship "Addison," signed by Millard Fillmore, Pres. U.S., 1852 9/20. (Envelope, laid in, indicates this was sent to CDM by messenger from office of the president of the U.S. Steel Company)
Card case, containing calling cards for both CDM and "Andrew McGill."
2 clippings, one announcing birth of CDM's son.
Print of Doubleday, Page and Co. building.
Dust jacket proof for The Powder of Sympathy, by CDM.
4 sheets of engraver's proofs by Walter Jack Duncan of illustrations [for book by CDM?]
Itinerary of the Three Hours for Lunch Club, 1922-1923, with notes.
Receipted bill for accommodations at the Dysart Hotel, London, 1924 9.
The Studio, Special winter number, 1896-1897, featuring an article by Robert Louis Stevenson, plus some sketches by Stevenson.
The Bookman, 1905 6, featuring an article about Edward Fitzgerald. Laid in: Photograph of Fitzgerald and two articles from the East Anglian Daily Times, 1909 3/29, 4/1, telling of celebrations in Suffolk of Fitzgerald centenary [probably sent to him by grandparents, who lived in Woodbridge, Suffolk?]
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Contents include:
Letters to, "Dear George." Roslyn Heights, N.Y., 1950 6/14-11/1.
Letters and postcards to Cyril Clemens, Webster Grove, Mo. New York, 1927 4/1-1954 10/5.
Letter to Miss Hall, Girls High School, Brooklyn, N.Y. New York, 1923 2/1. [Sends his manuscript of Preface to Translations from the Chinese, plus a photograph of himself, for the School library; expresses pleasure in visit to the School.]
Letters to Harrison Hires (Haverford, 1910), 1925-1954. RESTRICTED.
Letter (with envelope) to John S. Van E. Kohn, New York City. Signed, "John Mistletoe." New York City, [1932 2/19] Also filed here: rough draft of Mr. Kohn's letter to CDM, which elicited reply.
Letters to Dean P. Lockwood, Haverford College. New York City, 1943 4/21, and Roslyn Heights, N.Y., 1955 1/31. (From the Haverfordiana Coll.)
Letter from FMM; tribute by Violet Loder.
Haverford College Horizons, 1963 3, containing article by Ralph M. Sargent about the journal, p. 14.
Letters to Harrison Hires restricted: not to be used or quoted without librarian's permission.
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Material Specific DetailsJournal by E. Page Allinson, about a bicycle trip he took with C.D.M. in England.
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Material Specific DetailsFolder contains xerox copies of actual letters.
Contents include:
CDM to EPA 1912 11/8 [Morley's thoughts on women whose minds are less encompassing than men's, but unsullied, which allows men to worship them]
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Correspondence concerning Morley Alcove, 1963- 1970.
Remarks of Mrs. Mary Allinson at dedication of Morley Alcove, 1968 5/5.
Remarks of FVM at dedication. 1968 5/5.
Letter to J.P. Magill, 1970 11, concerning 4-poster bed used as a porch of Capt. Mayne Reid. "An alcove should properly contain a bed."
Photograph.
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Material Specific DetailsVerses written by E. Page Allinson, for C.D.M.'s 40th birthday.
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Talk given by CDM, at the centennial celebration for Mark Twain, Columbia U., N.Y., 1935.
Includes manuscript of talk, reprint of this talk from Columbia University Quarterly, 1935 12, and letters (2) to and from CDM about it.
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Contents include:
The Adventures of Two Boys, 1902. 38 chapters.
A Collection of Riddles, comp. and ed. by CDM, 1902.
Mr. Bowser's Trip to the Moon, 1903. (includes complete and incomplete copies)
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Contents include:
The Sign of the Four Monthly, 1904 1. (Became The Triumvirate, 1904 2)
The Weekly News, 1902. 22 issues.
The Family News; 1904 11/6-1906 3/4. 19 issues.
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Contents include:
The Weekly Herald, 1903 10/31-11/21.
The Herald (daily), 1904 2/19-1904 3/16, (a few gaps). 39 issues, in all.
A Trip In Christophalia, 1904 [All empty but title page] Laid in: drawings, and a photograph of Washington, D.C. T.L.s. of FVM.
"Re the Beard," and "Verses Written by Christopher Morley to thank Page for the gift of a tobacco pouch."
"To a Brother in the War," 1916 1/6. Letter in verse, to Felix. (Rough draft and final ms.)
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Contents include:
"Living with Christopher Morley," by John D. Kenderdine. (2 copies) 1968.
"John Nicholas Beffel," by John D. Kenderdine.1968.
"The Last Seacoast of Bohemia," by Olga Collinson.
Clipping of magazine article about Morley's revival of the Rialto Theater, Hoboken [n.p., 1928?] Plus program from Rialto Theater, week of 1928 11/26.
In Memoriam Christopher Morley. Memorial pamphlet issued by The Saturday Review of Literature [1957] Contains tributes to Morley by Clifton Fadiman, John P. Marquand, Norman Cousins, Harrison Smith, and J. Donald Adams.
"Christopher Morley as I Remember Him," by W.L.G. Williams. Reprinted from The American Oxonian, vol. XLIV, no. 3, 1957 7. Inscribed, "To Page and Mary...Lloyd." Laid in, carbon of letter from Jack [Kenderdine?] to Lloyd [Williams] 11/5, praising the article and suggesting that he write a full book about CDM.
"Christopher Morley, or the Treasure of the Abandoned Mine," by FVM cop. 1959. (Process copy). Talk given at Haverford College, 1958 12/19.
The Library Chronicle, University of Texas, vol.VII, no. 2, summer 1962. Contains articles, "The Christopher Morley Collection," by Jon Bracker. Plus catalog of U. of Texas exhibition of Morley's manuscripts and 1st. editions, 1961 12-1962 2.
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Dissertation submitted by FVM for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, New College, Oxford, 1923 1.
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Letters primarily to his niece, Blythe Morley Brennan, 1936-1980.
Generally on family news, the letters are intellectual and humorous, and include:
About writing a biography of CDM (1960, 1980)
References to Buckminster Fuller (1979)
Writing about CDM, T.S. Eliot and Bruce Richmond (1979)
Lecturing on CDM at Haverford College (1971)
Math thoughts (1956)
Biography of CDM by Helen Oakley (1976)
Knothole Association (1961)
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Includes introductory notes by CDM.
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Material Specific DetailsLJBM's memoirs.
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Contents include:
Benet, William Rose to Dunsany (CDM) [1919 2] [writing copy for Corman Advertising; would like to give poetry readings and asks for advice.]
Mosher, Thomas Bird to CDM. Portland, Me., 1919 10/9. [discusses various rare books, Omar Khayyam, etc.]
Hale, William Bayard to CDM. New York, 1920 11/17. [re his book The Story of a Style about Woodrow Wilson.]
Biggers, [Earl Derr] to CDM. Washington, D.C., 1920 12/29. [re play "Three's a Crowd" on which Morley collaborated.]
Haley, Bart to CDM. [1921]. [bemoans the state of newspapers.]
? to CDM. Glacier National Park, [c. 1921]. [has sent two installments to Vachel Lindsay who liked them.]
Tomlinson, H[enry] M[ajor] to CDM. London, [Eng.], 1921 2/22. [admits that as a staff member of the Nation, the only American daily he reads is the Detroit News, along with several periodicals.]
Ransom, John C. to CDM. Nashville, Tenn., 1921 3/9. [hopes to get a friend's, Stanley Johnson, book published.]
Nock?, Albert Jay to CDM. New York, 1921 3/10. [turns down a story, as acting editor of The Freeman, by CDM's brother, but suggests he try Henry Mencken.]
Mosher, Thomas Bird to CDM. Portland, Me., 1921 3/15. [feels his introduction to Whitman's Leaves of Grass is his best work.]
?, Grant to CDM. Cambridge, Mass., 1921 3/16. [has taken a job at Swarthmore College, but will not give up his position with the Rhodes Scholarship Trust.]
Filsinger, Sara Teasdale to CDM. [N.Y.], 1921 5/2. [re circular Macmillan Co. has put out about her work.]
Book inscribed by patrons(?) to Sydney S. Pawling of The Coffee House, 1921 5/9. [includes Robert Benchley, Lyman Beecher Stowe and CDM (Signed as L. Abbott-Gissing)]
"Effendi" and "FND" (Frank Doubleday) to CDM. Garden City, N.Y., 1921 5/16. [re sales of Morley's "Doubleday" books; Rudyard Kipling does not want to receive any more applications for permission to publish, so Doubleday can't include his "Some Aspects of Travel" in an anthology.]
Graham, Stephen to CDM. Springfield, Ill., 1921 7/18. [sends two letters for the back page of the Evening Post about their trip; all is well with Vachel Lindsay.]
Graham, Stephen to CDM. Glacier Park, 1921 8/7. [sends more letters to be printed in the Evening Post.]
Graham, Stephen to CDM. 1921 8/22. [sends more letters to be printed in the Evening Post.]
Graham, Stephen to CDM. 1921 8. [more re trip]
Fogarty, Thomas to CDM. Naples, N.Y., 1921 8/24. [thanks him for compliments on his illustrations for Chimneysmoke.]
? , Elly to CDM. (editor of Atlantic Monthly). Boston, [Mass.], 1921 9/8. [compliments Morley on verses sent to him.]
Daly, Tom to CDM. [Phila., Pa.], 1921 9/21. [compliments Morley on verses sent to him.]
Graham, Stephen to CDM. London, [Eng.], 1921 11/3. [is working on a book which he hopes Doubleday will publish.]
Starret, Vincent to CDM. Chicago, [Ill.], 1921 10/22. [would like to get a copy of Morley's The Eighth Sin.]
Frank, Glenn (ed. of The Century Magazine) to CDM. New York, 1921 10/25. [returns "Continuity" as it is not a compelling story.]
Niven, Frederick to CDM. Nelson, B.C., 1921 11/11. [appreciated reading Shandygaff and mentions his friends Walpole and Tomlinson.]
Willem, Hendrick (?) (Pres. of Antioch College) to CDM. Yellow Springs, Ohio, 1921 11/15.
Eatus (?), Woller Prichard, to CDM. Sheffield, Mass.,1921 11/19. [says he is not a writer failed, but has been happy as a drama critic for 20 years.]
? , Bob to CDM., New York, 1921 11/26. [saw Booth Tarkington at the dedication of the Academy of Arts and Letters bldg.]
Macy, John to CDM. New York, 1921 11/30. [Morley's book of essays admired.]
Graham, Stephen to CDM. London, [Eng.], 1921 12. [likes Morley's Plum Pudding; T.S. Eliot's writing is more complex than Morley's.]
Graham, Stephen to CDM. 1921 12/9. [has sent Morley a copy of his manuscript]
Beer, I? to CDM. Yonkers, N.Y., 1921 12/12. [re "adaptations" made from Stephen Crane's work.]
Sherman, Stuart P. to CDM. Urbana, Ill, 1921 12/15. [re the writings of the fraternity of N.Y. essayists as compared with novelists and verse writers.]
Firkins, O.W. to CDM. Minneapolis, Minn., 1921 12/20. [re his inclusion in a book of American essayists.]
Pollinger, L.E. to S.A. Everitt. London, [Eng.], 1921 12/22. [re publication of Morley's books, Shandygaff, Kathleen, Pipefuls, and Plum Pudding in England.]
Smith, Logan Pearsall to CDM. Baltimore, [Md.], 1921 12/29. [has put off trip to Egypt as has been in hospital; his book has been translated into French.]
Bone, David to CDM. Helensburgh, Dumbartonshire, [Scotland], 1921 12/29. [has reviewed A.E. Newton's book A Magnificent Farce, and wrote an article on E. O'Neill's play Anna Christy.]
MacQuarrie, Hector to CDM. New York City, 1921 12/30. [thanks Morley for a write-up]
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Newton, A. Edward to CDM. Phila., [Pa.], 1922 1/5. [tells his opinions about Woodrow Wilson and William Randolph Hearst.]
Street, Julian to CDM. Princeton, N.J., 1922 1/6. [has been asked to speak on American wit and humor, but declined.]
Graham, Stephen to CDM. London, [Eng.], 1922 1/19. (fragment) [is writing a book called Tramping with a Poet in the Rockies.]
Graham, Stephen to CDM. Santa Fe, N.M., [c. 1922]. [describes his surroundings; posts an article.]
Smith, Logan Pearsall to CDM. 1922 1/26, Baltimore, Md.
Bone, David to CDM. Helensburgh, Dumbartonshire [Scotland], 1922 1/28. [movement afoot to revive interest in Scottish drama; (long letter touching many points)]
Low, Will H. to CDM. Bronxville, N.Y., 1922 2/12. [thanks Morley for his comments on "Margarita."]
Acklim, G.M. to CDM New York, 1922 2/14. [hopes Morley knows someone who could read a play by Robert Nichols.]
CDM to Will H. Low. New York, 1922 2/20. [would like to meet with Low; thanks him for a tip on Robert Lewis Stevenson's tobacco.]
Bolling, John Randolph to CDM. Washington, DC, 1922 3/10. [Woodrow Wilson will see Morley in a fortnight.]
Lampson, Alden to CDM. Washington, D.C., 1922 3/11. [re attribution of a Walt Whitman photo taken before he suffered apoplexy.]
[Graham], Stephen to CDM. San Juan, P.R., 1922 5/12. [sends 4 articles.]
Tinker, Chauncey Brewster to CDM. Yale [New Haven, Conn.], 1922 5/22. [thanks Morley for his comments on a book.]
Bone, David W. to CDM. Helensburgh, Dumbartonshire, [Scotland], 1922 6. [finishing his book Lookout Man]
Smith, Logan Pearsall to CDM. Chelsea, [Eng.], 1922 7/7. [feels he and Morley are both trying to represent the self-conscious of modern man.]
Niven, Frederick to CDM. Nelson, B.C., 1922 7/17. [re his books and a preface, he hopes by CDM or 2 others; a fall in the mountains.]
Newton, A. Edward to CDM. Phila., [Pa.], 1922 8/7. [has written the play "Dr. Johnson" and has purchased the Reynolds portrait of Johnson.]
Mitchell, E[dward] P. (editor ofN.Y. Sun) to CDM. Kenyon, R.I., 1922 9/12. [praises a book by Bramah].
M[iles], H[amish] to CDM. Chelsea, [Eng.], 1922 10/17. [sends copy of Oxford Circus]
de la Mare, Walter to CDM. Anerley, [Eng.] 1922 11/4. [is giving the "Clark" lectures at Cambridge.]
M[iles], H[amish] to CDM. [London, Eng.], 1922 11/23. [has sent Morley Ernest Bramah's The Wallet of Kai-Lung; his Oxford Circus has had good press.]
Bone, David W. to CDM. Glasgow, [Scotland], 1922 12/4. [saw Frank Doubleday at Gibraltar; breakdown of his ship R.M.S. Tuscania.]
Palmer, E.H. to CDM. Cambridge, [Mass.], 1922 12/12. [thanks Morley for a volume of his.]
Newton, A. Edward to CDM. Philada., [Pa.], 1922 12/20. [critique of Where the Blue Begins; Austin Gray as replacement for Gummere at Haverford.]
"Effendi" (Frank N. Doubleday) to CDM. Garden City, N.Y., 1922 12/27. [would like to set up Joseph Conrad to speak about literary values and ambitions, showing how an incident provoked a book.]
"Three's a Crowd", play by Biggers based on CDM's story "Kathleen."
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Bramah, Ernest to CDM. London, [Eng.], 1923 1/10.
Kern, Jerome to CDM. Bronxville, N.Y., [c. 1923.] [praises Morley's Shaw paper, suggesting GBS should do an introduction to a Morley brochure; has been touring with "Stepping Stones"]
Sollers, William to CDM. Calvert Co., Md., [c. 1923 11/2]. [re the employment of an agent --his own play is in the hands of a friend; feels Where the Blue Begins would make a fine play.]
Daly, [Tom], [s.l., s.n., 1923 1] [re his play which is not doing well; poor health.]
"Alf" to CDM. (Harcourt Brace & Co.) New York, 1923 1/17. [re the death of Russell Loines and an anecdote about him and Gorky]
Bone, David W. to CDM. Helensburgh, Dumbartonshire, [Scotland], 1923 1/25. [re possible sailing with Joseph Conrad; his book being published.]
Biggers, Earl D[err] to CDM. Camden, S.C., [c. 1923 2/5]. [re a London production of "Three's a Crowd."]
Daly, Thomas Augustine to CDM. Phila., [Pa.,] 1923 2/10. [hopes to get to the Philobiblon Club to hear Newton read his Johnson play.]
Miles, Hamish to CDM. London, [Eng.], 1923 3/14. [re London production of "Three's a Crowd"; is on the staff of the New Statesman; has discovered the root for an episode in Stevenson's The Wrecker.]
[FVM] to CDM. New College, [Oxford, Eng.], 1923 3/2 [congratulates Chris on birth of 4th child; has finished a book on East Anglia; is thinking of taking a job with Harcourt, Brace.]
[FVM] to CDM. [England], 1923 4/5. [had dinner with Swinnerton and Huxley -- descriptions of both; mentions Sinclair Lewis and John Cournos].
CDM to Will Low. New York, 1923 6/4. [hopes he can come to the christening of the Tusitala, of which Muirhead Bone will execute a drawing and letter by Joseph Conrad will be read]
Low, Will H. to CDM. Bronxville, N.Y., 1923 6/5. [accepts above invitation.]
Low, Will to CDM. Bronxville, N.Y., 1923 6/27. [sends photos for the ship Tusitala, gifts of the Stevenson Society of America.]
[Bone], Muirhead to CDM. Petersfield, [Eng.], 1923 8/11. [writes of enjoyment upon reading a Morley column about "M.B.," (himself?)]
Newton, A. Edward to CDM. Phila., [Pa.], 1923 8/14. [praises a Morley manuscript on poetry.]
Carman, Bliss to CDM. New Canaan, Conn., 1923 9/28. [asks permission to use two pieces of Morley's for an anthology.]
Tingle, Jedediah to CDM. [s.l., s.n.], 1923 10/16. [has visited playgrounds in various parts of the country financed anonymously by him; also a copy of a "Bowling Green" column re Tingle as philanthropist.]
Low, Will H. to CDM. Bronxville, N.Y., 1923 10/18. [re time spent with Robert Lewis Stevenson and painting of Stevenson.]
CDM to Will H. Low. New York, [1923] 10/18. [has ideas for publication of the R.L. Stevenson painting.]
Broun, Heywood to CDM. [New York], 1923 10/30. [will bring a book to Morley.]
N[ewton], A. E[dward] to CDM. [s.l., s.n.], 1923 11/11. [had a party for E. V. who sent a poem on the occasion.]
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CDM to Will H. Low. Roslyn Heights, New York, 1924 2/14. [would like to include a piece by Low in an anthology he is editing.]
CDM to Will H. Low. Roslyn Heights, N.Y., 1924 3/24 & 4/30. [Morleys will be going abroad - northern France; he is trying to finish a book of one-act plays.]
CDM to Will H. Low. Donville-les-Bains, Manche, [France], 1924 10/15. [describes his time and place in France; about writing and writing style.]
CDM to Will H. Low. Roslyn Heights, N.Y., [c. 1925 3/10]. [Will be seeing Jerome Kern about the production of a play based on Where the Blue Begins.]
CDM to Will H. Low. Roslyn Heights, N.Y., 1925 4/5. [has finished this day his novel, Thunder on the Left.]
CDM to Will H. Low. Roslyn Heights, N.Y., 1925 9/5. [Morleys sailing for France and England that day.]
CDM to Will H. Low. Atlantic City, N.J., 1925 12/11. [Having trouble writing a story.]
Bone, Muirhead to CDM. Oxford, [Eng.], 1926 2/14. [would like to see his son's manuscript published; has a new studio.]
CDM to Frank {Henry?]. Essex, N.Y., 1927 7/13. [description of perfect conditions for writing]
Allison, John M. to CDM. American Embassy, Tokyo, Japan, 1933 11/19. [has read and enjoyed "Trivia" in the Modern Essays anthology.
Graham, Angus to CDM. Edinburgh, Scotland, 1935 11/8. [re a book he has written.]
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CDM to HTB. New York City, 1936 2/14. [encloses a reprint "The Mark Twain Commemoration"]
Nash, Ogden to Alfred P. Lee (author of A Bibliography of Christopher Morley), 1929 10/5, Garden City, N.Y. [sends CDM's manuscript "Trade Winds"]
[von Luckner], Felix to Gene [MacDonald]. Halle-Saale [Germany, c. 1932]. [Praises the new Reich under Hitler.] Fuller, Buckminster to CDM. Bridgeport, Conn., 1934 5/11.
CDM to HTB. New York City, 1936 7/15. [attached is copy of a song written by Morley.]
Macdonell, Archie to CDM. Surrey, Hascombe, [Eng.], 1936 7/23. [has written a "violent" novel which has been rejected and would like to find a new publisher.]
Lange, Lester F. to CDM. New York City, 1936 8/16. [has a Hazlitt manuscript which he would like to show Morley.]
CDM to "dear old Groups"(FVM). [s.l., s.n., 1936 9/16. [has just returned from a trip to Chile; Bernard DeVoto is to take charge of Saturday Review of Literature.]
CDM to Roger [Scaife], 1936 9/16. [will finish Bartlett's Quotations; inclusions in this edition.]
Reynal, Eugene to CDM. New York, 1936 10/17. [notes receipt of Morley's manuscript Ex Libris assembled for the New York Times' National Book Fair.]
CDM to Frank Monaghan, [New York,] 1936 10/14. [sends a piece on New York to be included in the world's fair booklet.]
CDM to George Middleton. [s.l., s.n.], 1936 10/23. [assumes notice of Middleton's book on Balzac will appear shortly in SRL].
FVM to CDM. London, [Eng.], 1936 10/23. [wishes CDM luck with Book Fair.]
CDM to FVM. New York, 1936 12/11. [mentions that Edward VIII and he took a course together.]
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CDM to H.S. Latham. [New York], 1937 1/18. [feels Muirhead Bone's Old Spain is best book of the times, and would like to buy a copy in some form.]
CDM to Roger Scaife. [New York], 1937 2/19. [is sending the last main section to be included in Bartlett's Quotations which he feels is "the most interesting textbook of our literary history."]
Allison, John to CDM. Tsinan, China, 1937 3/15. [thanks Morley for inscribing "Streamlines"; talks of political picture in China; may write a biographical sketch of Max Beerbohm.]
Macy, George to CDM. New York, 1937 4/23. [asks Morley to be chairman of jury to select gold medalist for Limited Editions club; Morley refuses on 4/29.]
Scaife, Roger L. to CDM. Boston, [Mass.], 1937 5/5. [wonders if Morley's preface to Bartlett's Quotations could not be sold separately and used as a come-on to early subscribers.]
Lyons, Leonard to CDM. [New York, 1937 5] [would like to put some Morley items in his column; Morley declines, not wishing publicity.]
FVM to CDM. [London, Eng.], 1937 4/6. [partial letter: sends Chris. Auden poem on Spain -- if published proceeds would go to Medical Aid in Spain.]
CDM to Virginia Bertsch. [New York], 1937 5/21. [explains basis for good writing.]
CDM to FVM. [New York], 1937 12/10. [will be presenting books to the president]
CDM to Thurston Macauley. [New York], 1937 12/30. [can't come to lunch because of funeral of Don Marquis.]
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March, Harry A. to CDM. New York, [1938]. [concerned about the "memorial show", apparently for Don Marquis] McKee, Ruth to CDM. Los Angeles, Cal., 1938 3/17. [mentions Kathryn --'s novel about the Bronte's and her own Three Daughters and other works.]
CDM to Marion Dodd. [New York], 1938 10/10. [calls Pearsall Smith's Unforgotten Years a "civilized" book and explains meaning of 'civilized']
McClintock, Theodore to CDM. New York City, 1938 10/22. [thanks Morley for the praise of his book The Underwater Zoo.]
Kunitz, Stanley J. and Haycraft, Howard to CDM. New York, 1939 7/27. [Morley has been selected for inclusion in Twentieth Century Authors.]
CDM to Joseph W. Lippincott. [New York], 1939 7/31. [concerns plagiarism of Morley piece and reparation.]
Memorandum simulating obituary written by CDM, 1939 9/16. [tells what are his own favorite works and why and how he sees himself.]
Contract dated New York, 1939 9/21 to CDM from This Week magazine for publication rights of The Bird that Didn't Go South in the amount of $400.
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Robinson, Henry Morton to CDM. Pleasantville, New York, 1940 3/22. [would like Morley to do a sketch for Reader's Digest of "The Most Unforgettable Characters I Have Ever Known", lists other contributors.]
[McKee,] Ruth to CDM. "In the wilderness," 1940 3/10. [thanks Morley for introduction to the Van Dorans; is writing a novel, Mirage.]
Reid, James M. to Sharon Brown, 1940 6/21. [re plans for 4-volume edition of Present Tense and outline of scope] (Several items follow enlarging on theme of Present Tense)
[McKee], Ruth, to CDM. [s.l., s.n.], [c. 1940 12/3]. [will begin working on a novel After a Hundred Years.]
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Howell, Douglas Morse to CDM. New York City, 1941 3/24. [encloses samples of his woodcuts -- would like to do illustrations for SRL]
Tomlinson, H[enry] M[ajor] to CDM. Abbotsbury, Dorset, [Eng.], 1941 1/20. [talks of England, Joseph Kennedy and the war.]
Housman, Ann to CDM. Brooklyn, [New York], 1941 3/26. [has enjoyed Morley's books.]
Morley, C.D. to HTB. New York City, 1941 12/27. [encloses program for a book fair at which he introduced and commented on the work of several authors.]
Allen, Ned to CDM. New York, New York, 1942 9/10. [returns two Morley pieces with his letter]
Curtis, G. to CDM. Hartford, Conn., 1942 10/18. [a "Parnassus on Wheels" club was organized in 1934 for prisoners and parolees -- CDM requested to speak; hopes he will write about the inequities doled out to criminals.]
Dunn, Esther E. to CDM. Northampton, Mass., 1942 11/19. [relates identification with characters in Thorofare.]
CDM, FMM and Buckminster Fuller. 1942 9-11. [re event at Haverford including Fuller; also, projection of Fuller's map and drawing of FVM's theorem, all in photocopy, relating to the opening of "Government House" at Haverford]
Vitinghoff, H. to CDM. New York, 1942 12/4. [compliments Morley on Thorofare as a mirror held up for exploring Anglo- American images -- thinks Morley is an Englishman.]
Zahn, Mabel to CDM. Philadelphia, Pa., 1942 12/10. [reports enthusiasm at Sessler's for Thorofare.]
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Koestler, Arthur to CDM. Tring, Herts, [England], 1943 3/4. [asks Morley to contribute to a "visionary" anthology.]
Brooks, Geraldine to CDM. Clearwater, Fla., 1943 2/27. [is soon to do a review of Thorofare; appreciates reference in it to her father, Elbridge S. Brooks' work "A Boy of the First Empire."]
?, Roy (pres. of the Time) to CDM. New York, 1943 3/24. [responds to apparent opinion by Morley that the Time has not reviewed him kindly.]
[Bundy, M.W.] (head of dept of Eng. at State College of Washington) to CDM. [Pullman, Wash., c. 1943] (letter fragment). [praises Thorofare, especially Shakespearean angle.]
Bell, Arthur W. to CDM. [c. 1943]. [enjoyed Thorofare ocean voyage better than a Conrad one]
Rieber, Frank to CDM. New York, 1943 3/29. [enjoyed Thorofare, particularly for scientific element.]
Poley, Irvin to CDM. Phila., Pa., 1943 4/4. [comments on Thorofare.]
Burt, Struthers to CDM. Southern Pines, N.C., 1945 4/5. [thanks Morley for the review of his book.]
CDM to Irvin Poley. [New York], 1943 4/7. [responds to Poley's comments and mentions factual error in Thorofare.]
CDM to HTB: [New York City, 1943 7/16. (written on SRL letterhead stationery)
Smith, Edgar W. to CDM. New York, 1943 7/27.
Faber, Geoffrey to CDM. Sussex, [Eng.], 1943 8/2. [thanks him for New York hospitality.]
Kennerley, Mitchell to CDM. New York, 1943 8/26. [talks of Walt Whitman and an article about the war.]
Kerr, Chester (chief of Book Bureau, Office for Emergency Management) to John J. McCloy (ass't sec'y of war). Washington, D.C., 1943 9/3. [feels a joint publication project with England about the war would be valuable -- Morley chosen as American representative of the writing team.]
Opffer, Ivan to CDM. New York City, 1943 11/5. [wants to do a drawing of Morley for Daily Telegraph.]
Graham, Stephen to CDM. London, [Eng.], 1943 11/12. [reading and enjoying John Mistletoe.]
Bird, Florence (CDM's aunt) to CDM. Royston, Herts, [Eng.], 1943 11/21. [war effects; family news.]
Cochrane, Louise (Morley) to CDM. London, [Eng.], 1943 12/12. [personal news]
Dierkes, Henry to CDM. LaPorte, Indiana, 1944 1/25. [sends copy of Living Poetry and philosophy of the magazine's editors.]
[Brace], Done to CDM. New York, 1944 3/13. [includes a clipping of letter to the editor written by George Bernard Shaw who comments on the government's fiscal policies.]
CDM to Commander E.E. Hazlett, Jr. [New York], 1944 5/12. [suggests an exchange of naval officers at British and American naval academies.]
[Lockwood, Dean] "Pete" to CDM. [Haverford, Pa.], 1944 1/23. [cites various committees to which he is committed; praises Morley as a "tower of strength for the Library Associates".]
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Drake, Thomas E. to CDM. Haverford, Pa., 1944 2/4. [thanks Morley for Holmes manuscript, The Iconoclast.]
Adams, George Matthew to CDM. Nova Scotia, [Canada], 1944 7/15. [is trying to write his autobiography; describes his location.]
CDM to George Adams. [New York], 1944 11/29. [apologetic letter for accident by which Morley was credited as donor of The Iconoclast by A.C. Doyle, rather than Adams.]
Rosenbach, A.S.W. to CDM. Phila., Pa., 1945 7/25. [re purchase of A.C. Doyle's "Criminal Library".]
Maxwell, Bill to CDM. New York, 1946 1/22. [returns Three-Star, Would I Were Steadfast.]
CDM to "Laurence". New York, 1946 10/19. [notes about Gissing]
CDM to Archibald MacIntosh. Roslyn Heights, N.Y., 1946 12/23. [Christmas poem.]
[CDM] to William Ross (Rose?) Bennett, 1949 6/14. [re book of poetry to be issued under both their names.]
Fox, C.L. to CDM. Egham, Surrey, England, 1950 2/4. [encloses an article for the Baker Street Irregulars, "New Light on Dr. Watson."]
CDM to Louis [Greenfield?]. [s.l., s.n.], 1950 3/8. [Getting ready to do a preface for the first vol. of the Boswell papers.]
CDM to HTB. Roslyn Heights, N.Y., 1950 10/23. [in preparation for a trip to Haverford College.]
CDM to HTB and "Bunny". Roslyn Heights, N.Y., [1950 10]. [reminisces about Haverford College after his visit.]
CDM to W.W. Comfort. Roslyn Heights, New York, 1950 9/23. [about his book Thorofare and Haverford College.]
CDM to [William Wistar Comfort] "Bill". Roslyn Heights, New York, 1954 5/17. [talks about his Haverford days.]
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Benet, Laura to CDM. Scarsdale, N.Y., [n.d.] [hopes Morley will contribute a poem for the Vassar College Salary Endowment Fund.]
Croy, Homer to CDM. Forest Hills, L.I., N.Y., [n.d.] [illustrated invitation]
[Daly], Tom to CDM. Phila., [Pa.], n.d. [encloses a clipping containing a poem by CDM.]
Devine, Jim to CDM. New York City, [n.d.] [recount a dream in which CDM and Charles Lamb figure]
F[ootner], B[ill], to CDM. London, [Eng.], [n.y. 3/9] [his stay in England has gained him friends in Aldous Huxley, Frank Swinnerton, et al.]
[Footner], B[ill] to CDM. Sollers, Md., [n.y. 7/26] [has sold the Substitute Millionaire to the movies; also about other of his works.]
F[ootner], B[ill] to CDM. Sollers, Md., [n.d.] [re his writing book reviews.]
Frank, Glenn (ed of Century Magazine) to CDM. New York, [n.d.] [turns down Morley's play]
H., B. to CDM. [s.l., s.n., n.d.] [criticizes Morley's Where the Blue Begins; his own work on a book and at The Ledger.]
Haley, [Bart] to CDM. Phila., [Pa.] [n.d.]
Herbert, A[lan] P[atrick]. [s.l., s.n., n.d.] [would like to do some articles for Morley]
Leacock, Stephen to CDM. McGill University [Montreal, Can.], [n.y. 2/6]. [congratulates CDM on his "Modern Essays."]
M[arquis], Don. Paris, [Fr.], [n.y. 8/8]
Ransom, John C. to CDM. Nashville, Tenn., [n.y. 10/22]. [would like to have Morley recite some his poetry, along with several other poets.]
[Sandburg], Carl to CDM. Rochester, N.Y., [n.y. 2/2]
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[Haverford song], [c. 1910], Typescript, annotated.
"In the Steerage of the Lusitania". [1915]
Misery Loves Company. Typescript and copy of play, 1925.
"Cuckoo Interlude" (play) 1928, Typescript, annotated.
"Pennsylvania Dutchesses" (play) [n.d.], Typescript
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"The Second Mate" is co-authored by CDM and Felix Reisenberg.
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Contents include:
"Christmas Cards"
"Soft Shoulders" 1940. [Play, produced at Millpond Playhouse.] Typescript, annotated.
"Sherlock Holmes and Mr. Watson" 1944. Also known as "Textbook of Friendship." Typescript, annotated.
"What '45 Ought to Know" 1945. Typescript, annotated.
"The Sheepmeadow Speech" 1945. Typescript, annotated.
"Ex Libris" 1936. [Book Fair edition of a publication of a talk CDM gave at U. of Pennsylvania. Also includes cuttings from printed material, gallery proofs and photos of art and type.] Holograph Manuscript.
Fragmenta Disjecta. [Includes "The Hilarity of Hilaire", and other fragments.] Partial Holograph Manuscript.
"Reality Goes Overboard" Typescript
Facetious Precis and Exegeses [Includes various Sherlock Holmes stories.] Typescript and Holograph Manuscript.
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Essays include:
3 states. 1940. n.d.
"Naval Engagement"
"Collaborating with the Author"
5 with no title.
Magazine stories include:
"A XMas Story without Slush" (review for), [n.d.], Typescript
"The One Who Sees Most", [n.d.], Holograph Manuscript.
"The Woman Who Saw Tompkins Square", [n.d.], Holograph Manuscript.
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"February 25, 1936"
no title [c. 1942]
"Requiesco" 1944
"From an Apt Near the River"
"From Arthur's seat"
"The Bus Conductor"
"The Wall Street Kitten"
"To a Broadway Hotel"
"On my New Typewriter Ribbon"
"The Nightpiece to Herrick"
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CDM at work editing a 1948 edition of Bartlett's Quotations, assisted by Mrs. Helen Carrol, his secretary.
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CDM was a visitor in a class of "Waves" (USNWR) at Hunter College.
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Contents include printed solicitation for serial publication "Human Events," with printed signature of FMM, et al.
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Contains signatures of greater and lesser known lights in the period 1916-1919. Laid in are three letters about club luncheons, a photo of a drawing probably of some club members; more signatures toward the end, under the title "The Race of Grub Street Runners."
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Contents include:
Scarf imprinted with The Man Who Made Friends With Himself & other CDM titles.
Large envelope, which reads "An Illustrated Map of the City of Hoboken," with handwritten address to HTB.
"Hoboken Nights: A Journal of the Drama, Music, Etc.", the publication of The Hoboken Theatrical Co., of which CDM was president. 1929 4/14. [note: "A surprise for Tat - from Chris"]
Publicity for Notes on Bermuda, by CDM.
Large notice concerning Rockwell Kent edition of Shakespeare, preface by CDM. [includes envelope addressed to HTB, and separate smaller card inside]
Catalogue for auction of books and manuscripts property of CDM, 1930.
CDM's French lessons at H.C., 1907 9-11. [enclosed in envelope addressed from CDM to "Lt. Cmdr. H.T. Brown jr."]
Notice of CDM's inclusion on Adelphi College faculty, 1939.
Bound essay, "My Christopher Morley's," by Wilbur Macey Stone.
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Contents include:
Ads, newspaper clippings.
Postcards, (blank).
CDM's students' papers.
Photocopy of certificate from Glens Falls Chapter of Kinsprits of Vermont verities.
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Contents include:
The Haverfordian, 1908 11, including CDM's poem, "The Pine Woods."
The Haverfordian, 1908 12, including CDM's poem "To a Grasshopper."
The Haverfordian, 1909 1, including CDM's article "The Limerick."
The Haverfordian, 1909 2, including CDM's story, "Episodes in the Life of an Irish Waitress."
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Contents include:
"Great Caesar!," H.C. Class of 1910 play, for which CDM wrote some songs, and played a role. [item is a book of musical numbers]
"Thinking about Haverford" by CDM, 1919.
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Contents include:
New York Central Magazine, 1927 5, for which CDM wrote "Christopher Morley writes about his trip on the Champion 20th century ."
Copy from Saturday Review of Literature of CDM's "Advance Comment" on All Quiet on the Western Front.
Catalog of photographic exhibition, introduction by CDM, 1931.
Catalogue of the Theatre, 1932, in which CDM's "opinion" is printed.
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Contents include:
New York Herald Tribune, 1932 12/25: "Sky Writing" by CDM.
Saturday Review of Literature, 1932 9/24: "What the President Reads..." by CDM.
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Edgar W. Smith's Christmas card containing poem by CDM.
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Contents include:
1933 11, including CDM's poem, "Ballade"
1934 11, including article by CDM "Eumenides of Book Collecting". [2 copies.]
1935 1, containing CDM's "In Re: Logan Pearsall Smith." [2 copies.]
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Autumn issue, including CDM's "An Archway".
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Contains CDM's "Thirty Out of Forty-Eight."
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Contents include:
1935 6/29, containing CDM's "Bowling Green" column.
1935 10/5, in which CDM was one of "The First Five Readers."
193 1/4, containing CDM's "Bowling Green" column.
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This is a pre-publication pamphlet, for which CDM wrote "For the Lover of Literature."
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Contains short column by CDM.
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Contents include:
Roslyn News, containing article by CDM. 1937 8/26.
This Week magazine containing article by CDM, "The Bird That Didn't Go South."
"Everyday Reading", [n.d.], containing CDM's "Passivity Program."
"A Bookseller's Author", [n.d.] containing quotes from various CDM books.
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written to F.P. Frazier (of J.B. Lippincott Co.)
Box 29 contains Chapters I-II, and Box 30 contains Chapters III-V.
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A play by CDM. [includes advertisement for production at Millpond Playhouse.]
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Contents include:
"Archie the Cockroach Discourses on him of Avon" (Poem)
"Bacon's Essays," Introduction for Limited Editions Club. 1944 2/29
Mandarin Dialect [Notebook containing passages probably all used in publication.]
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Contents include:
CDM to M.M. Mendelsohn. 1936 12/18. [responds to his letter in which Mendelsohn reminisces about meeting Morley]
Moseley, Wayne to CDM. 19419/11. [requests contribution to new Haverford College publication, Haverford Review.]
CDM to Wayne Moseley. 19419/15. [Encloses a piece, presumably from John Mistletoe, "An Archway," [the Carvill Arch at Haverford, which was part of the greenhouse before it burned.] Printer's copy and proofs.
CDM to Doris, 1945 10/10. [re a book by FVM which she will have reviewed.]
Bolton, Theodore to CDM. 1945 11/2. [concerns an artist, Landerer, about whom CDM had been inquiring.]
FVM to FMM. 1946 2/13. [about FMM's Ms. with which he is delighted. The Ms., an autobiography, is included.]
Scaife, Mary L. to FVM. 1946 3/15. [sends a continuation of FMM's autobiography]
[CDM] to Edgar W. Smith and L[ouis] Greenfield. 1947 12/21. [proposes Baker Street Irregulars produce new edition of The Blue Carbuncle.]
McPharlin, Paul to [Edgar] Smith. 1948 2/10. [proposes type face for new edition of The Blue Carbuncle.]
Canby, Henry Seidel? (Book-of-the-Month Club) to CDM. 1948 5/12. [Does not care for The Blue Carbuncle.]
Streibert, Theodore C. (president of WOR) to Louis Greenfield. 1950 5/18.
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Folder 1 contains 1906-1922.
Folder 2 contains 1923-1945.
Folder 3 contains 1946-1955, & n.d.
Contents include:
LJBM to CDM. 1906 9/23. (Photocopy.) [written on the eve of CDM's departure for H.C.]
CDM to "Shep" (Victor Schepperle). 1910 6/25. [sends itinerary; describes possibilities after Shep graduates (H., 1911)]
CDM to "Sheps". 1910 7/14. [dreams up scheme for a boating excursion, naming entire ship's company; is in Nova Scotia, which he considers preparation for England.]
CDM to "Mifflin" (EPA). 1911 8/28. [verse in thanks for tobacco pouch; is reading Robert Louis Stevenson; describes Woodbridge in Suffolk, etc.]
CDM to "Mifflin" (EPA). 1914 10/6. [wants to write a skit for the Haverfordian called "The Night Before."]
CDM to EPA. 1917 1/3. [thanks for gift to his new son.]
CDM to "Mifflin" (EPA). [c. 1918]. [announces position with Evening Ledger.]
CDM to "Mifflin" (EPA). [c. 1918.] [His play is in rehearsal; teaching a course on Chaucer at Haverford.]
CDM to Mr. Chase. 1919 11/25. [regrets unable to accompany cast of "Three's a Crowd" to Syracuse.]
CDM to "Mifflin" (EPA). [c. 1920]. [hard at work on a novel.]
Correspondence, 1925, [re publication by The Haverfordian of CDM's college pieces under the title Hostages to Fortune. Also dust jacket, articles of agreement & clipping.]
Photostatic copies of letter & inscription tipped into The Eight Sin in Morley Alcove. [1926]
CDM to Jack [Kenderdine]. 1928 8/28. [Morley's theatre, The Rialto, reopening with Morley as a manager; invites Kenderdine to opening.] (Printed announcement, annotated)
CDM to Jack [Kenderdine]. 1929 8/15. [concerns opening of a club, The Foundry, a place for frolicking]
CDM to ?. 1931 8/4. (Photocopy.) [his own favorite of his books is Inward Ho!]
CDM to Robt. E. Meinberg. 1933 1/10.
CDM to Mary (Allinson). 1937 10/23. [on the death of her mother, his father; has a play going into rehearsal.]
CDM to HTB. 1937 12/17. [encloses his column, printed in Yale News of 1927.]
CDM to HTB. 1938 3/16. [claims idea for establishment of Bryn Mawr College born in library at Haverford College -- and Bryn Mawr should not forget its origins.]
Lee, Alfred P.1938 7/1. [note from CDM's bibliographer and CDM's penciled response]
CDM to "Mifflin" (EPA). [1940 2/9]. [angry at denigrating statement about Kitty Foyle by W.W. Comfort.]
CDM to EPA. 1940 3/25. [re books bought at Leary's.]
CDM to "Mifflin" (EPA). 1940 6/24. [will take some refugees from England into his home; displeasure with the literary views of "the Billy Comforts."]
CDM to Donald N. Clark. 1942 1/23. [he use to be a library assistant in a Quaker Sunday School.]
CDM to Pete [Lockwood].1944 1/20. [a friend has promised to give Haverford College his Max Beerbohm collection, Conan Doyle's Iconoclast et al]
CDM to Tat (HTB). 1944 8/11. [re CDM 's new book, the Middle Kingdom, etc.]
CDM to Pete [Lockwood]. 1945 3/21. [will come to Library Associates meeting, but doesn't want to be the speaker.]
CDM to Pete [Lockwood].1945 4/14. [quotes relating to Fox portrait; watermarks in his copy of Fox's journal].
Keddie, James [Kenderdine] to CDM. 1945 4/16. [would Haverford College Library want a copy of "Sherlock Holmes - A Play" by Gillete?]
CDM to Pete [Lockwood]. 1946 10/21. [3 advices to Haverford.]
CDM to "Mifflin" (EPA). 1946 12/21. [Christmas greetings.]
CDM to ?. 1947 1/4. [the most wonderful book in the world would be a complete series of perfectly honest letters; papers of CDM to go to Haverford College to be opened in 25 years.]
CDM to Pete Lockwood. 1948 5/8. [Milton used to be taught at Haverford; thrilled to see Reynolds portrait of Johnson at Haverford which he remembered hanging in A. Edward Newton's library.]
CDM to Pete [Lockwood].1948 10/25. [is sending first publication of Baker Streets Irregulars.]
CDM to Pete [Lockwood]. 1948 11/17. [Ralph Isham is the greatest Johnsonian cogniscenti he has ever known; extremely busy with new novel.]
CDM to Petey [Lockwood]. 1948 12/28. [someone such as Gilbert White or Ralph Sargent should do a "nature-and-human-nature" study of Haverford --- and be a classic.]
CDM to Pete [Lockwood]. 1949 2/5. [requests help for a Latin motto for a book. Lockwood obliges (1949 2/7)].
CDM to "Mifflin" (EPA).1950 3/7. [thinks H.C. Library collection important to contribute to, though young people do not tend to read the same books as Morley's generation; topics he would like to write about.]
CDM to "Mifflin" (EPA). 1950 5/9. [re death of William Rose Benet; his son off to Japan -- melancholy; writing about Boswell.]
CDM to Page and Mary (Allinson). [1950 6/12.] [about current work; lack of flowers at H.C.; John Mistletoe is a good deal about H.C., "but I think is now entirely forgotten."]
CDM to George [Stevens?]. 1950 6/14. [about the wonderful library at H.C.]
CDM to [EPA?]. [1950? 6/14] [re impending trip together.]
CDM to "Mifflin" (EPA). 1950 8/20. [poetry everywhere; encloses poem "Hurricane weather."]
CDM to "Mifflin" (EPA). 1950 9/19. [will do a review of Maugham work for New York Times; works that did and do appeal to him; lectures he gave in Hawaii in 1933.]
CDM to George [Stevens?]. 1950 11/1. [dreamed of Logan Pearsall Smith; gets first editions cheaply; delights of the H.C. Library; has Lindsay manuscripts.]
CDM to [EPA?].1951 3/11. [to resume BBC-run Transatlantic Quiz; vacation together in Europe.]
CDM to EPA. 1951 4/3. [details of impending vacation together.]
CDM to EPA. 1951 4/29. [has had stroke?]
CDM to Stephen Fry. 1951 6/3. [leg and arm had been affected by stroke]
CDM to EPA. 1951 6/21. [offer from Jesse Merritt of some New York Quaker records.]
CDM to ? [1951? 6/21] fragment. [L[ogan] P[earsall] S[mith] Shakespeare Ms. is to be given to the H.C. Library.]
CDM to EPA? 1951 12/12. [encloses verse to be sung; description of an oak tree being removed.]
[Lockwood], Pete to CDM. 1952 3/2. [would like Morley to give a talk on Logan Pearsall Smith for Library Associates]
[Lockwood, Pete] to CDM. 1952 4/2. [includes Morley's Shakespearian Sonnet, no. 155.]
CDM to EPA? 1952 5/26. [first piece about their trip together written up for the New York Times.]
CDM to EPA. 1952 11/12. [John Keats' letter to Fanny Brawne in H.C. Library, "but how many of us took cognizance of same?"]
CDM to "Mifflin" (EPA). [1953 6/29]. [political situation in U.S.; books.]
CDM to EPA. 1953 6/22. [saddened by death of his hero Henry Scattergood.]
CDM to Page and Mary (Allinson). 1953 8/24. [new English trip planned.]
CDM to "Mifflin" (EPA). [n.y. 6/18] [storm brewing and recollections of storms in prose.]
CDM to Page. [n.y. 4/9] [spoke at a Library Associates meeting at H.C.; books he has collected to give H.C.]
CDM to Rudyard [Kipling] [pre-1936] [With short reply by R.K. appended]
CDM to EPA?. [n.d.] [poem about cutting off his beard]
CDM to "Mifflin" (EPA). [n.d.] [written from England]
CDM to Page and Mary (Allinson) [n.d.] [commitments he must honor]
CDM to Page and Mary (Allinson) [n.d.] [can't accept invitation, as must finish writing or revising a book of poems]
CDM to Page and Mary (Allinson) [n.y. 11/9] [has signed for a movie of Parnassus on Wheels]
CDM to ? [n.d.] fragment. [has corresponded with Lady Colvin about Robert Louis Stevenson] Photocopy.
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Contents include:
"Thinking about Haverford" in Back to Haverford. [c. 1919]
Christopher Morley's "New Books (A Review)" in The Haverfordian. 1920 12.
Advertisement for a Morley talk at Haverford, entitled "The Religion of a Newspaper Man". 1924 5/13.
"Devotion". A song. Words by CDM. 1922.
"Hoboken Nights" in Saturday Evening Post. 1929 7/13.
Description and request for funds for The Foundry. 1930 4.
"Sun Cured - a peccadillo". Short play. 1930.
A John Mistletoe calendar. [c. 1931]
"Old Loopy" in Inland Topics. 1935 11.
Speech at the Mark Twain Commemoration in Columbia University Quarterly. 1935 12.
The Stuff and Nonsense Scrap-Book. Dedicated to CDM. Contains CDM' s first article for Evening Public Ledger. 1935 12.
"A Successor to Mark Twain" in Michigan Alumnus. 1937 Summer.
CDM' s letter to the printer. [c. 1937]
"Confessions of a Pipe Smoker" in Pipe and Pouch. 1937.
"The Secret" and "The Brown-Eyed Mistress". Two songs. Words by CDM. 1938.
"People - The Important Thing at Knox". Brochure including visit to the college by CDM. [c. 1938]
"To Fra Giovanni" Originally written in 1603. Reprinted, and possibly used as a Christmas card in 1939.
"The Barton Autograph Book" in The Haverford Review. 1943 Spring.
Advertisement: "Christopher Morley writes for your papers..." [c. 1947]. 2 copies.
Advertisement by Baker Street Irregulars for Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle. [c. 1948]
Advertisement by Saturday Review for a CDM column "Notes on a Visit to England". n.d. 2 copies.
Program for CDM'S play "Soft Shoulders". n.d.
Two cards. n.d.
Stock certificate issued to CDM for shares of Baker Street Irregulars, Inc. n.d.
"Great Caesar!" Presented by class of 1910, with CDM in cast.
Fourth Class Letter, class of 1910, 1915 3. Contains CDM's letter.
Saturday Review of Literature, 1948 4/17. Contains "Notes on an Island"; also CDM advertisement on p. 56.
"Britain for the Holidays". Six sonnets. 1951.
Courier, 1958 11. Contains "The Old Mandarin" and "Unpublished Epigrams".
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Contents include:
Typed, annotated index to CDM's Bowling Green column, 1924-38
Toward a bibliography for Trade Winds, 1929-1940, includes correspondence concerning columns.
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Drawings (by Muirhead Bone), photographs and newspaper clippings.
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Contents include:
"Lines from Christopher Morley." Christopher Morley Knothole Assoc.
"Speaking of Books," a review of CDM's life and literary contributions by Donald Adams.
In Memoriam (to CDM) 2 copies.
"Christopher Morley on Long Island" by Helen McK. Oakley
Review by George Stevens of Helen Oakley's Three Hours for Lunch. [biography of CDM.]
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Contents include letters concerning dedication of Morley Alcove at Haverford College in 1968 5, or other events connected with the alcove, including a letter from Katharine White; also typed copy of FVM's dedication speech.
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Contents include:
Mary Allinson with Herman Abromson, [re CDM.]
E. Page and Mary Allinson with Jon Bracker re CDM and "The C.D.M. Collection" by Bracker.
Mary or E. Page Allinson from Morley family members.
Mae Craig to Mary Allinson [re an unwritten tribute to CDM.]
"Confidential Memorandum re The Foundry". Mimeographed report on the location for the Hoboken Theatrical Co. of which CDM was president.
Announcement of a Morley exhibit, 1970, at Hofstra University.
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Contents include 8 compositions on Troilus & Cressida. (None by CDM.)
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Contents include:
Certificate of "Hoboken Free State, E Pluribus Euthanasia." [with note to HTB from CDM]
Photocopies of materials re CDM, including letters by M. Lincoln Schuster - a tribute to CDM, 1957 4/4; Papers connected with the Bryant Library CDM exhibit in 1973.
Ships' menu cards autographed by CDM's companions.
Photograph, including Morleys, Kenderdines and Allinsons.
Caricature of CDM by Jay.
"Little Hungary". Printed pamphlet. Unattributed.
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A Prologue for the Old Rialto Theatre, Hoboken, by CDM and spoken by CDM at the first performance of "After Dark," 1928 12/10.
Notice asking audience to refrain from excessive noise during shows.
Ad for production of "After Dark" at the Old Rialto Theatre.
List of employees' signatures verifying receipt of salary. 1928 11/5
Pamphlet announcing the approaching opening of "The Black Crook." 1929 2.
"Gambrinus Thalia Birds-eye view of Hoboken, New Jersey, U.S.A. New York's last seacoast of Bohemia... executed for Messrs. Morley and Throckmorton..." Illustrated map of Hoboken [including large illustrated envelope].
Promotional publication for Lyric and Old Rialto Theatres, 1929 4/14. Entitled Hoboken Nights, vol. 1 no. 1., announcing production of "The Black Crook."
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Contents include:
Illyrisches National Lied, [musical score by Jerome Kern, words by CDM.]
If You and I, [musical score by Ernest S. Colling, words by CDM.]
Let's Pretend Not to Pretend, [musical score by Ernest S. Colling, words by CDM.]
Epitaph, [musical score by Ernest S. Colling, words by CDM.] 2 copies.
The Plumpuppets, [musical score by Ernest S. Colling, words by CDM.]
I Was Just a Little Song, [musical score by Ernest S. Colling, words by CDM.]
Tit for Tat, [musical score by Ernest S. Colling, words by CDM.]
Six Weeks Old, [musical score by Ernest S. Colling, words by CDM.] 3 copies.
The Black Beetle, [musical score by Ernest S. Colling, words by CDM.]
Hoboken Drinking Song, [musical score by Ernest S. Colling, words by CDM.]
Three Songs: Song for a Little House, The Black Beetle, Six Weeks Old, [musical score by Ernest S. Colling, words by CDM.] 3 copies.
Dandy Dandelion, [musical score by Ernest S. Colling, words by CDM.]
March of the Plumpuppets, [by Ernest S. Colling, epigram by CDM]
You Naughty Naughty Men, [poetry by T. Kennick, music by G. Bickwell.] [written for "The Black Crook," a play by CDM.]
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Contents include:
Newspaper clippings for play "The Blue and the Gray; Or, War is Hell," at the old Rialto Theatre. 1929-1930.
Letter from CDM re the early closing of The Blue and the Gray. 1930.
Manuscript of "The Blue and the Gray." [handwritten edits.]
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Contents include:
My One Contribution to Seventeenth Century Scholarship, by CDM. Privately printed, 1927.
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Essay (fragment) on Robert Louis Stevenson, pre-1910, is very fragile. Please use care when accessing.
Contents include:
Essay (fragment) on Robert Louis Stevenson by CDM. pre-1910.
"Robert Louis Stevenson: Author and Man." Graduation thesis [Haverford College], 1910 5. Holograph.
"A Barbershop Shantey." Photocopy of holograph.
"Ritualization for the solemnization of a new collar in hot weather." Xerox of typescript, annotated recalling the writing of these lines for the Phila. Evening Ledger in 1917.
"Notes for an essay on religion." Holograph, 1924
"Newspapers and religion". Holograph, [c. 1924].
Review of Dusty Answer by Rosamund Lehmann. Typescript, [1927?].
"Translations from the Chinese." Photocopy of holograph, annotated, written for Saturday Review of Literature ("Bowling Green"), 1932 12/23.
"White House Interior" H.Ms.S., 1932; 2 letters.
["Centennial Ode to Haverford"]. Typescript, [1933].
"Ballade" [to Haverford College, 1933]. Holograph signed; also Typescript.
"Footnotes for a Centennial", 1933. Ts., annotated. Published in Literary Digest, Saturday Review and Haverford College Centenary, and separately in 1936.
"Eumenides of book collecting" Holograph, [1934]
"A note by Christopher Morley on The Fool of Venus by George Cronyn." Typescript, [1934].
Poem, written on the stay of a hat lining, bedecked with labels and CDM's autograph. Holograph, [c. 1934].
Review of Slovenly Peter, translated from the German by Mark Twain. Holograph, 1935.
"Mother Goose at Election" [about the economy and state of society in 1936] Holograph, [1936]. Written for Saturday Review of Literature.
Notice of memorial meeting for Frank Morley at Haverford Friends Meeting. Holograph, [1937].
"Ballade in a Bookseller's Catalogue." Photocopy of Typescript, annotated, and photocopy of same printed in the New Yorker, 1943 2/27, [1943].
A letter from Christopher Morley: "O that my publisher had written a book...." Ts., mimeographed, 1945. [re FVM's "My One Contribution to Chess"]
[Notes for a column on some events of the year 1946]. Typescript, [1946].
Review of Mainly on the Air by Max Beerbohm. Photocopy of Typescript and photocopy of printed review in altered state, 1947. 2 items.
"Memo for this private edition" [re a book to be published]. Typescript, 1949 2/17.
Review of The Old House at Coate by Richard Jefferies. Ts., [1948]
"Valediction". Typescript, n.d.
"To the Great Variety of Readers". Typescript, n.d.
"When Katy is weary and bilious..." [poem by CDM.] n.d.
"A Birthday!" [a poem] 1950 4/13.
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Contents include:
Inscription on pamphlet on Stewart Kidd Modern Plays, given by CDM to E.S. Colling, 1923 8/22.
Dust jacket for Kitty Foyle, 1940.
Sketch of man (not CDM), pen and ink, n.d.
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Contents include:
"The Value of the Classics for Their Literary Qualities". [Essay, n.d.]
"Boston Whitleberry stepped on the ruver steamer..." [Single page, n.d.]
"Imagining conversations..." [List of writing assignments?, n.d.]
"The Camp Fire", 1908 9/28. For English V.
"Two Pictures", 1908 10/1. For English V.
"The woods were bright...", 1908 10/7. For English V.
"The Pine Woods", 1908 10/7. For English V.
"My Country", 1908 10/14. For English V.
"The Werewolf: The Tale of the Westchester Pike!", 1908 10/14. For English V.
"The Padded Cell", 1908 10/19. For English V.
"In Meeting", 1908 10/28. For English V.
"The Engineer", 1908 10/28. For English V.
"A Letter from Steele to Addison", 1908 11/4. For English V.
"Autumn", 1908 11/4. For English V.
"Table Talk - As Overheard by the Waiter", 1908 11/8. For English V.
"In the Cathedral", 1908 11/30. For English V.
"Dramatization of the Book of Esther," 1909 3/24. For English V.
"Fence Rail Raillery", 1909 10/12. For English V.
"The Modern Novel: Opening Lines", 1909 10/19. For English V.
"Life in the Out of Doors", 1909 10-26. For English V.
"On an Unconstitutional Universe", 190 11/2. For English V.
"The Hero as Profit", 1909 11/9. For English V.
"A Spavined Pegasus, Or, That One-Page Theme!", 1909 11/16. For English V.
"Areopagitica. From Two Points of View", 1909 11/18. For English V.
"A Fragment", 1909 11/23. For English V.
"Simply Chatting", 1909 11/30. For English V.
"After-Supper Simmerings", 1909 12/14. For English V.
"Tityre Tu Patulae--", 1909 12/21. For English V.
"Romeo and Juliet", 1910 1/11. For English V.
"Thoughts on Keeping a Diary", 1910 1/30. For English V.
"An Attempt at Portraiture", 1910 2/8. For English V.
"Suggestions", 1910 2/15. For English V.
"Character Sketch", 1910 3/8. For English V.
"Medieval Commerce: Its Growth and Its Results", 1910 3/30. For English V.
"Thoughts on Stevenson's Virginibus Puerisque", 1910 3/3. For English V.
"Survery of Ben Jonson's 'Alchemist'", 1910 10/26. For English IX.
"As You Like It", 1908 11/17.
"Romeo and Juliet", n.d. For English IX.
"Twelfth Night", 1909 2/23. For English IX.
"Report on Othello", 1909 3/15. For English IX.
"Report on Bacon's 'Essays'", 1909 4/12. For English IX.
"Report on 'The Tempest'", 1909 5/10. For English IX.
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Contents include:
Page proof of The Ballad of New York, New York: Poems 1930-1950 by CDM.
Rubaiyat of Account Overdue, by CDM. 2 versions.
Birthday Greeting for William Shakespeare. [1950s] 2 copies.
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Contents include:
"The Social Vision of CDM," essay, n.d.
"CDM of Salamis, Paumonok," essay, n.d.
"CDM and his Contribution to Sherlockian Literature," essay, n.d.
Essay, no title, n.d., [begins "William Shakespeare placed these words..."]
Haverford College Bulletin, 1915 2. ["Haverford and Publicity," an article by CDM]
Hoboken Nights, 1929 4/14, [article about "Black Crook"].
The Foundry, 1930 4.
"Christopher Morley: American Man of Letters, 1890-1957" pamphlet for University of Texas exhibition, 1961 12-1962 2
"Christopher Morley and Haverford College," pamphlet, 1968 5/5.
The Roslyn News, 1973 4/26, [article titled "Putting all Morley stuff in one library--Roslyn's"].
Morley: The Roslyn Years, 1920-1957, pamphlet for exhibition, 1973 4/29-5/26.
"Christopher Morley writes for your paper...," pamphlet, n.d.
Christopher Morley Knothole Association card, n.d.
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Contents include:
Letters and materials re Frank V. Morley's tribute to CDM, and the dedication of the Morley Alcove.
Obituaries for CDM.
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Dedicated to Ralph and Louise Sargeant
Copy of article for The Haverford News
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Contents include:
Newspaper clippings, programme, card re Theatre. 3 items.
Fabric with cross-stitch design, including quote attributed to CDM.
Calendar, 1936, titled Stories that Live Forever, as selected by CDM.
Printed Christmas cards (from CDM). 2 items.
"A Thomas Hardy Memorial" booklet, with inscription to "Dr. and Mrs. W[illiam] W[istar] Comfort [Mary (Fales) Comfort]," from A. Edward Newton, signed multiple times.
"Dusk," musical score. [Music by Gladys Washburn, words by CDM.]
"Put Your Arms Around Me," musical score. Albert von Tilzer, composer, Junie McCree, lyricist. 1910, revived in 1943.
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Contents include:
McFee, 1921 4/18.
Mat[?] S[teutlars] Burt, 1921 5/5.
A. Edward Newton, 1921 6/6, 1921 6/30, 1921 7/26, 1921 8/5, 1921 8/8.
Logan Pearsall Smith, 1921 10/4
James Branch Cabell, 1921 12/3.
W.A. White, 1921 12/12, [request for autographed books].
Edna Ferber, 1921 12/14, [re White's request for autographed books].
Ogden [Nash] to CDM, 1944 1/5, [includes speech introducing CDM].
H.L. Mencken, n.y. 3/15, 4/11, 4/13, 4/18.
Stephen V. Benet, n.d.
Physical Description15 items
Contents include:
to Gummere family members, 1919. 3 items.
written or forwarded to Ralph M. Sargent, 1940-1954. c. 55 items.
to George Spelvin, 1951.
to "Bill, Targ" 1952.
Physical Description60 items
Contents include:
Jumblies. Typescript.
Jumblies. Carbon copy.
Dwelly Lane. Typescript.
East South East. Typescript.
Old Glory. Manuscript.
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2 additional copies exist of T.S. Eliot and Herbert Read, however there are no additional copies of The Impersonal Hamlet.
Contents include:
The Brothers Club. Manuscript Typescript.
The Rainbow. Manuscript. 2 copies.
The Gateway. Typescript. 2 copies.
Thirteen Folios from Coleridge's Library. Typescript.
Some Thoughts Before Re-Reading Johnson. Typescript.
The Impersonal Hamlet. Typescript. 2 copies.
T.S. Eliot and Herbert Read. Typescript.
The Poetry of T.S. Eliot. Typescript. 2 copies.
A Pit in Dothan. Typescript.
(A Preface) The Sense of Place. Typescript.
Miscellaneous unidentified pages.
"Recording of a conversation with Frank Morley, Esq. at Jordans on 13 February, 1971." Typescript.
An Atlas of Literary England. Typescript.
The Saturday Book; "Dick Turpin" by FVM. Typescript.
The New Scientist; "The Leaning Tower" by FVM. Corrected Typescript.
Right Hand? Left Hand? Typescript. [with rejection letter from Jordans End.]
The English Channel. Typescript. [with rejection letter from Look and Learn.]
Callers at End House. Typescript. 2 copies.
Incinerator. Typescript.
The Grove. Manuscript.
In Retreat, by Herbert Read. Typescript.
A Few Recollections of Eliot. Typescript.
The Donkey Book. Manuscript.
Biographical information on Thomas Mayne Reid. Typescript., including image.
Physical Description25 items
Contents include:
"Potiphar's Age and Others" Typescript.
"The Holt Seer Green Bucks." Typescript.
"Weekend Guests." Typescript.
Get Off the Earth (puzzle by Sam Loyd).
Christmas Crossword, 1956.
The Game of Ziggurat, instructions. Typescript.
"Publishing." Typescript.
Physical Description5 items
Contents include:
Johnson Now. Typescript. 2 copies.
Samuel Johnson I-II. Manuscript.
Notes on Johnson.
Johnson and America. manuscript Typescript. 2 copies.
Physical Description6 items
Contents include:
Euclid's Postulates. Manuscript.
Geometry at Home. [Collection of geometrical shapes. Some repetition, no explanations.]
Physical Description2 items
Contents include:
The Cucullati. Typescript. 3 copies.
Photo of stone cucullati, newspaper clipping, postcard of cucullati.
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Contents include:
Friends School Report Book, 1910-1911.
Haverford College Reports, 1915-1917. 6 total.
Johns Hopkins University Informal Record, 1917-1918.
Johns Hopkins University Athletic Association Certificate of University H award in lacrosse, 1918.
Military (R.O.T.C.) Road Sketch, 1918.
"Problems in Astronomical Surveying," for Civil Engineering 6 at Johns Hopkins University.
Phi Beta Kappa Society Constitution, 1918.
U.S. Army, Certificate of Honorable Discharge, 1919 1/9.
U.S. War Department, Acceptance of Resignation of Reserve Corps Commission, 1920 9/17.
U.S. Library of Congress, Certificate of Copyright Registration: My One Contribution to Chess, 1945, 11/20
Partial list of publications.
Holiday card from Cynthia.
Original Mezzotint by Don Swann. [Note: With best wishes at Christmas for Frank from Cynthia.]
"Memories of my father" by Sue Morley Smithson, 1998.
"In Memoriam F.V. Morley," by Perry Morley, 1998.
"In Memoriam," by J.D.I. Morley, 1998.
2 letters from CMcLM (Cynthia?) to Mr. J. Schwartzman, Editor-in-Chief of Fragments, 1986.
Obituary for LJBM, [by FMM?], 1989.
Extract from Kingsmen of a Century 1873-1972, by L.P. Wilkinson, 1980.
Bundle of letters, multiple correspondents, 1882.
Meredith Wood to FVM, 1957, 8/13. [Re "In Memoriam Christopher Morley".]
Physical Description20 items
Contents include:
The Husbandry of Literature. [1st draft and amended copy.] 1958.
Christopher Morley, or The Treasure of the Abandoned Mine.
Christopher Morley as Man and Writer. 1958 10. Draft Typescript. Lecture given at Haverford College.
The History and General Practices of Publishing. n.d. Typescript. Lecture given at N.Y. University.
America Revised.
Note on the Humanities. 1929 3 Draft Typescript.
The Importance of Teaching Mathematics. 1938 1. Typescript.
The Consumer and the Classics. 1946 11. Typescript. Lecture at Sarah Lawrence.
The Use of the Classics. 1946 5. Typescript. Lecture given at Hunter College.
A Publisher's Notes. 1949. Typescript.
Some lectures have a few letters, about the lecture or material.
Physical Description10 items
Contents include 6 sessions of the lecture.
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Content includes:
The Road West
The Long Road West
Notes on Publishing
The Great North Road
Sterling Memo Book
Notebook with notes for History of Mathematics
Physical Description6 items
Contents include:
"Watson an Australian?" by FVM. [Found in The Baker Street Journal, Vol. 15, No. 1, new series.]
Outline for The Long Road West.
Note on good reviews of The Long Road West. [The Tablet. 1971 1/30.]
[Outline for] The Great North Road.
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Subjects include:
Letter from Faber and Faber Ltd Publishers, 1971 [sent with photos].
"Kit & Don Tharquis," sketch on photographic paper by Muirhead Bone. 4 copies and negative.
The Christopher Morley Inn, Philadelphia. [Meant to be used with biography of CDM.]
CDM with children Chris, Louise, Helen.
FVM, Ralph Sargent, FMM, James "Jim" McGill at Haverford. [Order left to right.]
Knothole Opening, 1967 5/21. 4 photos including: Eugene Nicherson, Robert R. Gamble, Janet Codrane, Tony Woodruff, Helen Woodruff, Lannie and Caroline.
FVM sitting with pipe. [1920s?]
Unidentified man. [Maurice?]
FVM, 2 portraits, 8 copies of each, one set in 2 sizes.
FVM, later in his life.
Physical Description40 items
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Contents include:
Correspondence between FVM and his parents, Lilian Janet and Frank Morley. [c. 120 items.]
Letters re Frank Morley's death and estate. [c. 10 items.]
Correspondence with others, including Cletus Oakley. [c. 55 items.]
Physical Description1 boxes
All material in Boxes 48, 49 and 50 are RESTRICTED for use until 2026 1/1.
Contents include:
CDM-FVM, 1919-1937.
FMM and FVM letters, 1914-1937.
CDM-FVM-FMM, 1939-1956.
FVM-FMM, 1957-1967.
FVM-FMM, 1968-1980. [Includes James McGill, 1974-1976.]
Other family correspondence.
Physical Description3 boxes
All material in Box 51 is RESTRICTED for use until 2026 1/1.
Contents include:
Three Men of the Twenties (notes for introduction, preliminary notes)
Three Men of the Twenties (notes and drafts) 3 folders.
Christopher Morley, by FVM. Typescripts. [Original version, additional copy of first 16 pages.]
Memoirs of Christopher Morley, by FVM. Typescript.
Physical Description1 boxes
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Contents include:
Elizabeth B. Winspear to CDM (addressed to "Dearest O.M." [which stands for "Old Mandarin"] 1945-1966.
CDM to Elizabeth B. Winspear, 1939-1954.
Louise Morley Cochrane to Elizabeth B. Winspear, 1946.
Etsa Inagaki Sagimoto to Elizabeth B. Winspear, 1948.
Blythe Morley to Elizabeth B. Winspear, 1957. [CDM's condition]
Physical Description60 items
Contents include:
Frank C. Henry to CDM, 1937-1939.
CDM to Frank C. Henry, 1926-1951 & n.d.
Physical Description60 items
Contents include:
CDM to George M. Adams.
CDM to Miscellaneous.
Miscellaneous.
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Contents include photographs related to Friends' Ambulance Unit.
Subjects include: F.A.U. members, Belgian orphans (girls at Wisques Orphanage and boys at Wizernes), the Cure of Ypres, chateau and ruins in Ypres.
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